Green Supply Chain Management - the Practice of Electronic and Textile Industries in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Pei-Chi Wu, 吳沛綺
• Other Authors: Shao-Ju Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85786393452700595796

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 企業管理學系 === 98 === Supply chain management is central to modern business operations. For businesses, profit attainment is not the only goal. Many enterprises are concerned about corporate social responsibility and trying to achieve sustainable development. Recently, especially influenced by the EU Directives, such as WEEE, RoHS, Eup etc., more and more businesses have noticed the “Green” issues. This research takes the electronic and textile industries for example to study the green supply chain management practices in Taiwan and tries to build a framework taking industry commonality and specialty into consideration. We first build the framework of analysis for the green supply chain which includes two categories of issues. The first part is the general factors of green supply chain management, including driving forces, hindering forces, push forces, drawing forces, and challenge forces. The second part concerns the degree of implementation of green supply chain in various phases, including green design, green purchase, green manufacturing, and green logistics. By sending survey questionnaire to the businesses in the electronic and textile industries with comprehensive supply chains, we obtained 16 final valid samples from the electronic industry and 22 final valid samples from the textile industry. We also conducted personal interviews of key managers in several firms to supplement the research contents. The observations from above study are as follows：General factors of green supply chain management are different between the electronic and textile industries. For electronic industry, EU directives is the main driving force, while changing production process and raising cost are the main hindering forces. And the degree of implementation of green supply chain is different by firms with no obvious trend for any phase. For textile industry, market environment is the main driving force, while lack of professional staff and knowledge in green supply chain management are the main hindering forces. And the degrees of implementation of green supply chain for most of the phases fall in the 1-20% interval. This research provides a comprehensive framework of green supply chain and applies the framework to compare the applicability to the high-tech electronic and traditional textile industries.